
ScopeCare® is a specialised endoscopic service that investigates upper GI, small bowel, and lower GI diseases. ScopeCare® consists of a team of medically trained specialists who perform small bowel capsule endoscopy, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy. These are all out-of-hospital services offered at ScopeCare branches including: Netcare Umhlanga Medical Centre, Durban North and other new branches are currently in progress.
ScopeCare® assists patients with newly acquired gastrointestinal symptoms
and carries out surveillance endoscopy for existing patients.
ScopeCare® investigates the following gastrointestinal symptoms and conditions:

Gastrointestinal symptoms such as:
- Nausea
- Abdominal pain
- Dysphagia (trouble swallowing)
- Reflux
- Heartburn
- Odynophagia (sharp, sudden pain when gulping or swallowing)
- Hematemesis (vomiting blood)
- Melena (darkened/tar-like stool)
- Weight loss
- Diarrhoea
- Regurgitation
- Anaemia

Upper Gastrointestinal conditions:
- Achalasia (difficulty swallowing food)
- Anastomotic leak (leakage from the reattached body Connection)
- Colonic angioectasia
- Atrophic gastritis
- Oesophageal varices
- Oesophageal strictures
- GERD
- Barrett’s oesophagus
- Reflux oesophagitis
- Caustic ingestion
- Diverticula
- Polyps
- Duodenal stricture
- Fistula
- Duodenal ulcer
- Foreign body
- Gastric varices
- Gastric ulcers
- Lymphoma
- Precancerous lesions
- Pernicious anaemia
- Metastasis of unknown origin
- Pyloric stenosis (swollen pylorus)
- Tumour or abnormal mass

Small Bowel Diseases such as:
- Coeliac disease
- Colonic angioectasia
- Crohn’s disease
- Lymphoma
- Polyps
- Masses
- Strictures
- Hereditary polyposis syndrome
- NSAID-induced enteropathy

Lower GI Diseases such as:
- Colonic obstruction
- Anastomotic leak
- Angioectasia
- Crohn’s disease
- Diverticula
- Colorectal cancer
- Fistula
- Endocrine mass
- Ischemic colitis (poor blood flow to the large intestine)
- Ulcerative colitis
- Other colitis
- Pseudomembranous colitis (inflammation of the inside of the large intestine)
- Metastasis of unknown origin
- Pouchitis
- Superficial neoplastic lesions
- Polyps